Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

I'll say sex. There are a ridiculous amount of "love" songs out there, a lot of people I've known have picked up musical instruments to woo or impress the desired gender, etc.

I see it this way: There are musicians who don't do / approve of drugs. There are musicians who don't give a **** about politics. There are musicians who aren't doing it for the money. You'll be hard-pressed to find a musician with no interest in love or sex at all. I'm sure they exist, but there have to be far less of those than the others.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Sex, easily. Before there was money, before drugs were easy to come by, sex was there inspiring musicians to write music to get people's blood flowing.

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

As for me, my inbox is as of yet testicle-free, and hopefully remains that way. Don't the rest of you get any ideas.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

I'll have you know, my ancestors were Kings of Wicklow! We're as Irish as losing a three-nil lead in a must-win fixture!

Originally Posted by xEMGx

Ah that's messed up. I think it's more of an anger thing.

Originally Posted by bandteacher1

I type whicked fast,

Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships

Money, it has steered alot of idiots into thinking they can be musicians.

Originally Posted by flewis

Somewhere along the lines seems like modeling agencies and money took over the music industry!! If you'd asked me 15 years ago I would have said drugs influenced alot of music

Originally Posted by duga

Rush is one of those bands. Neil Peart refuses to write about love. He finds it to be nothing more than a chemical response to attraction and the need to reproduce. I love that band, but that seriously depresses me.

Originally Posted by jastrub

Rush is a fantastic band, and one of the reasons I like them is because they avoid the love song. I have a big spot in my heart for wonderful love songs, but there are so many. Our culture is infatuated with nothing but "silly love songs", as one of history's greatest perpetrators, Paul McCartney, once put it. The only girl Peart ever wrote about was Ayn Rand, and I kinda like it that way. Rush's apollonian logic nicely balances out the dionysian sex/drugs/angst trifecta that plagues most popular music.

Originally Posted by Conan

One of the reasons I loved Nirvana so much as a kid is they weren't doing the same old "Love is this love is that" thing that I had grown so accustomed to hearing.

Originally Posted by bandteacher1

I type whicked fast,